For someone who once read everything in sight including cereal boxes, this is a very limited list...
EVERY WEEK
LA Weekly (A ritual)
EVERY MONTH
Vanity Fair
LA Yoga
National Geographic
Vogue
Rolling Stone
SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR
Esquire
Smithsonian
Mother Jones
Ebony
Newsweek
New Yorker
Hola
RARELY
Oprah
People
12/10/10
BRANDING CHRISTINE TRZYNA : READING STOPTISM by LEE EISENBERG MADE ME THINK
Favorite Cheap Shampoo : V05 has it over Suave any day!
(Whatever happened to BRECK ?)
Favorite Expensive Shampoo : Pantene of course (got any samples?)
Toothpaste : Crest - flavored - Citrus, Cinnamon, anything but minty!
Favorite Cheap Soap: Tone or anything with Cocoa Butter
Favorite Expensive Soap: Oh the expensive soaps I was once gifted and could never find or afford again! (Paris) I prefer scented soaps to perfume.
Favorite Perfume: A personal mix I have made every few years in Malibu. Through time I have sometimes worn men's cologne as I prefer non-floral scents.
(Whatever happened to BRECK ?)
Favorite Expensive Shampoo : Pantene of course (got any samples?)
Toothpaste : Crest - flavored - Citrus, Cinnamon, anything but minty!
Favorite Cheap Soap: Tone or anything with Cocoa Butter
Favorite Expensive Soap: Oh the expensive soaps I was once gifted and could never find or afford again! (Paris) I prefer scented soaps to perfume.
Favorite Perfume: A personal mix I have made every few years in Malibu. Through time I have sometimes worn men's cologne as I prefer non-floral scents.
12/7/10
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE and the ARMONICA
So the other day I was in a public library in another city when I noticed a table of Christmas CD's and one of them featured songs performed on the ARMONICA... Turns out that my favorite Benjamin Franklin invented this instrument... Marie Antoinette was one of those who learned to play it. There were once 5000 in existance and now? ! maybe two or three players in the whole world... Linking to the site that explains it all...
William Zeitler is dedicated to bringing this instrument back from the endangered musical instruments list... The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies was originally written for the ARMONICA!
William Zeitler is dedicated to bringing this instrument back from the endangered musical instruments list... The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies was originally written for the ARMONICA!
12/6/10
THE CAMPBELLS SOUP CANS WERE SUBVERSIVE
I think the CAMPBELLS soup cans were subversive because Andy grew up in the town where the HEINZ was made; soup, ketchup... By giving CAMPBELLS free advertising through pop art, Andy Warhol was promoting Campbells, or declaring war on Heinz... and all those factory jobs in Pittsburgh where you could smell the soup cooking in the air.
What's your favorite flavor Campbells? Mine is a tie between Bean with Bacon and Scotch Broth (rare to find on the shelves these days.)
Christine Trzyna
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What's your favorite flavor Campbells? Mine is a tie between Bean with Bacon and Scotch Broth (rare to find on the shelves these days.)
Christine Trzyna
Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights
12/5/10
BRANDING CHRISTINE TRZYNA or WHILE WRITING I EAT CRACKERS AND CHEESE
Favorite Grocery Store of ALL TIME (Particularily during the Ralphs/Vons strike) : TRADER JOES (Does civilization exist where Trader Joe's arn't?)
Favorite Nail Salon/Polish : OPI (All things OPI are wonderful. Do exotic vacations take place where no one is wearing OPI?)
Favorite Chewing Gum to chomp while on the Internet: ORBIT Maui Melon Mint (The trendy pop art packaging lured me to try it.)
Favorite Crackers to read books eating : KEEBLER Townhouse Flipsides Pretzel Crackers
along with
Favorite Cheese to read books eating : SARGENTO Reduced Fat Swiss Cheese.
Favorite Nail Salon/Polish : OPI (All things OPI are wonderful. Do exotic vacations take place where no one is wearing OPI?)
Favorite Chewing Gum to chomp while on the Internet: ORBIT Maui Melon Mint (The trendy pop art packaging lured me to try it.)
Favorite Crackers to read books eating : KEEBLER Townhouse Flipsides Pretzel Crackers
along with
Favorite Cheese to read books eating : SARGENTO Reduced Fat Swiss Cheese.
(Hint: Stuffing a holiday stocking for me should be simple with these clues.)
12/4/10
12/2/10
BRANDING CHRISTINE TRZYNA or I THINK OF ANDY WARHOL
I've been thinking a lot about BRANDING. (And that Andy Warhol was a futurist in his understanding of this concept.)
Branding is a marketing term for moving a product (a person/writer is a product) into a category that is evocative of the essence of that person/writer, sometimes through associated product.
State that again?
It is assumed that what I buy says a lot about me - my personality, character, values, class.
I think maybe what I DON'T BUY SAYS MORE!
I'm in love with cutting edge advertising as pop culture. I love paging through a VANITY FAIR or a VOGUE and looking at the ads - what models are being used - what is the "story" each pictorial promotes. (High fashion ads are sometimes creepy. I hated the lurking molester/rapist of young sexy girls jeans pictorial a few years back.) But I can't say that I have bought anything I've ever seen advertised in either magazine.
Anyway, I'm going to have fun with this idea of me being a BRAND, as associated with PRODUCT, during the most materialistic time of the year in this "Christian" country; the Christmas season. I'm going to pitch products I like, just like I used to play at being a TV commercial actress and promoting a box of cereal when I was a kid.
C Christine Trzyna/ Writerly Life 2010 All Rights Reserved Including Internet and International Rights
C 2016 Christine Trzyna Blogspot
Branding is a marketing term for moving a product (a person/writer is a product) into a category that is evocative of the essence of that person/writer, sometimes through associated product.
State that again?
It is assumed that what I buy says a lot about me - my personality, character, values, class.
I think maybe what I DON'T BUY SAYS MORE!
I'm in love with cutting edge advertising as pop culture. I love paging through a VANITY FAIR or a VOGUE and looking at the ads - what models are being used - what is the "story" each pictorial promotes. (High fashion ads are sometimes creepy. I hated the lurking molester/rapist of young sexy girls jeans pictorial a few years back.) But I can't say that I have bought anything I've ever seen advertised in either magazine.
Anyway, I'm going to have fun with this idea of me being a BRAND, as associated with PRODUCT, during the most materialistic time of the year in this "Christian" country; the Christmas season. I'm going to pitch products I like, just like I used to play at being a TV commercial actress and promoting a box of cereal when I was a kid.
C Christine Trzyna/ Writerly Life 2010 All Rights Reserved Including Internet and International Rights
C 2016 Christine Trzyna Blogspot
11/30/10
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES / PERMISSIONS
ALL ORIGINAL WRITING OF THIS BLOG and the design and composition of this blog is and remains the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY of CHRISTINE TRZYNA.
All videos, art, and writing linked to or quoted REMAIN THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY of others. I claim all Rights to my ORIGINAL WRITING, and the design and composition of this blog, including INTERNATIONAL and INTERNET RIGHTS. As a requirement for using my intellectual property, I must be contacted in advance for permission. (If you do not contact me and get it in writing, then the answer is NO. )
CHRISTINE TRZYNA and CHRISTINE TRZYNA WRITERLY LIFE are NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ANY COMMERCIAL SITE. I/we do not endorse any product or petition that is using links to this site. I/we also do not endorse the sale of any product, book, chapbook, etc being sold on the net using my name or authorship or links to this site for the purpose of sales.
All videos, art, and writing linked to or quoted REMAIN THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY of others. I claim all Rights to my ORIGINAL WRITING, and the design and composition of this blog, including INTERNATIONAL and INTERNET RIGHTS. As a requirement for using my intellectual property, I must be contacted in advance for permission. (If you do not contact me and get it in writing, then the answer is NO. )
CHRISTINE TRZYNA and CHRISTINE TRZYNA WRITERLY LIFE are NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ANY COMMERCIAL SITE. I/we do not endorse any product or petition that is using links to this site. I/we also do not endorse the sale of any product, book, chapbook, etc being sold on the net using my name or authorship or links to this site for the purpose of sales.
11/23/10
LEO KOTTKE RINGS
Woke up in the middle of the night thinking of this song... which I haven't heard in years.
ONE RED PAPERCLIP - HE TRADED A PAPER CLIP FOR A HOUSE : KYLE MACDONALD
Great news in depressing economic times. KYLE MACDONALD link is here! He started with a red paperclip - following his story here!
11/21/10
ANOTHER STUPID THING (MOSTLY MALE) PEOPLE SAY TO WOMEN WRITERS
... Another stupid thing that people - mostly male people - have said to me as a (woman)writer is that I should have sex with them, and "really live," and THEN I WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO WRITE ABOUT!
Ego driven people like this get more pathetic sounding by the minute.
Why would I have to have sex at all to have something to write about?
I'm not a sex writer!
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Ego driven people like this get more pathetic sounding by the minute.
Why would I have to have sex at all to have something to write about?
I'm not a sex writer!
C Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved including International and Internet Rights
11/19/10
ONE OF THE STUPIDEST THINGS PEOPLE SAY TO WRITERS ....
One of the stupidest things people say to writers, when we share (and since we are expressers, we share) instead of the horridly patronizing "Thank You For Sharing," is "You should write a book."
Our every harsh experience is dismissed or deemed worth experience for the "learning value." We are often told by people that these experiences are worth it because they give us SOMETHING TO WRITE ABOUT. As if we don't already experience life as worth writing about without the angst. As if only harsh experiences are somehow illuminating or invigorating or inspiring! AS IF OBSERVATION, RESEARCH, or pure IMAGINATION are not enough!
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Our every harsh experience is dismissed or deemed worth experience for the "learning value." We are often told by people that these experiences are worth it because they give us SOMETHING TO WRITE ABOUT. As if we don't already experience life as worth writing about without the angst. As if only harsh experiences are somehow illuminating or invigorating or inspiring! AS IF OBSERVATION, RESEARCH, or pure IMAGINATION are not enough!
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11/12/10
THOSE LITTLE LIBRARY PENCILS ARE A WASTE OF MONEY!
As you may know, I blog a bit about LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY. Recently a librarian expressed to me the waste of money that those little (about 3 1/2 inch presharpened) pencils are. NOBODY WANTS TO SHARPEN THEM! And I do, but they are good for about ONE SHARPEN before they become near impossible to put into the electric sharpener. And at that length they dig into a person's hand. They are uncomfortable to use as well.
WHY NOT JUST BUY FULL LENGTH PENCILS THAT HAVE MORE SHARPENING LIFE IN THEM? I see these sold for as low as $1.00 a six pack!
WHY NOT JUST BUY FULL LENGTH PENCILS THAT HAVE MORE SHARPENING LIFE IN THEM? I see these sold for as low as $1.00 a six pack!
11/5/10
OLD SCHOOL LIBRARY BOOKS WERE A SECRET METHOD FOR
passing notes back and forth in the 8th grade. Usually these notes were simply silly but sometimes a boy and a girl would pass love notes this way. The note was put into the pocket pasted inside and all the teacher thought was going on was the return to of a library book to the person who it temporarily belonged. Passing notes in library books was especially done in English class. I suppose this was because our teacher went wild on a daily basis and sometimes didn't show up at all. The boys in my class drove her wild with various goof ball antics that proved they/we were not paying attention. I think we made our way through about 3 chapters of the book the entire year. I didn't like English classes.
It was READING that made me want to be a writer myself.
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It was READING that made me want to be a writer myself.
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